Notice2024-13502
Notice of Request for Revision of a Currently Approved Information Collection
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Published
June 20, 2024
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Agriculture DepartmentForeign Agricultural Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this notice announces the intention of the Foreign Agricultural Service to request approval to revise the currently approved information collection for the USDA's Trade Missions and Trade Shows programs.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 119 (Thursday, June 20, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 51871-51872]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-13502]
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Foreign Agricultural Service
Notice of Request for Revision of a Currently Approved
Information Collection
AGENCY: Foreign Agricultural Service, USDA.
ACTION: Notice and request for comments.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this
notice announces the intention of the Foreign Agricultural Service to
request approval to revise the currently approved information
collection for the USDA's Trade Missions and Trade Shows programs.
DATES: Comments on this notice must be received by August 19, 2024.
ADDRESSES: You may send comments, identified by the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) Control number 0551-0050, by any of the
following methods:
<bullet> Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://www/regulations.gov.
This portal enables respondents to enter short comments or attach a
file containing lengthier comments.
<bullet> Email: <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#3b6f76687a5f5652557b4e485f5a155c544d"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="ecb8a1bfad88818582ac999f888dc28b839a">[email protected]</span></a>. Include OMB Control Number 0551-
0050 in the subject line of the message.
<bullet> Mail, Courier, or Hand Delivery: Ryan Brewster, U.S.
Department of Agriculture, Foreign Agricultural Service, 1400
Independence Avenue SW, Room 6085, Washington, DC 20250.
Instructions: All submissions must be identified by the OMB Control
Number 0551-0050 and include the name of the agency, the Foreign
Agricultural Service.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ryan Brewster, 202-720-9084,
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#3d69706e7c595054537d484e595c135a524b"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="f3a7bea0b2979e9a9db386809792dd949c85">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: USDA Trade Missions and Trade Shows.
OMB Number: 0551-0050.
Expiration Date of Approval: August 31, 2025.
Type of Request: Revision of a currently approved information
collection.
Abstract: USDA Trade Missions and Trade Shows is revising
previously approved surveys in order to gather more useful information
to further program objectives. The updated surveys have more focused
questions to prompt responses that will be used to implement effective
trade promotion events and ensure that program objectives are met. For
example, the updated surveys will now ask fewer qualitative questions
about how participants felt during the event and more questions
relating to the type of organizations participating in the program
(e.g., whether an organization is a member of a USDA Cooperator or
State and Region Trade Group). The surveys will collect relevant data
on each organization and their connection to USDA initiatives and
programs.
Two of the five surveys undergoing revision are applications to
gather essential information from respondents desiring to participate
in USDA trade missions or virtual trade events to determine their
eligibility to take part in the event. The remaining three are
voluntary post-event digital surveys for participants to fill out after
a USDA-endorsed trade show, trade mission, or virtual trade event to
report their satisfaction with the event and actual on-site and
projected sales data as a direct result of their participation in the
program. Trade and sales data supplied on this form is strictly
confidential and will not be shared with outside sources. Submitted
information from these post-event surveys is used to measure the
benefits of these activities for participants, participant satisfaction
with the activities, and how activities can be improved. All revised
surveys are expected to positively contribute to FAS' strategic goals
related to promoting U.S. agricultural exports.
Estimate of Burden: The total number of questions in each revised
survey have decreased, resulting in the public reporting burden for
each respondent participating in USDA Trade Mission and Shows Events to
be approximately 15 minutes for each survey.
Trade Missions Application
Type of Respondents: Government agencies, State Regional Trade
Groups, State Departments of Agriculture, private companies,
agricultural cooperatives, and export trade associations.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 500 per annum.
Estimated Number of Responses per Respondent: 1 per annum.
Estimated Total Annual Burden of Respondents: 125 hours per annum.
Trade Missions (Post-Event) Survey
Type of Respondents: Government agencies, State Regional Trade
Groups, State Departments of Agriculture, private companies,
agricultural cooperatives, and export trade associations.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 130 per annum.
Estimated Number of Responses per Respondent: 2 per annum.
Estimated Total Annual Burden of Respondents: 65 hours per annum.
USDA-Endorsed Trade Shows (Post-Event) Survey
Type of Respondents: Government agencies, State Regional Trade
Groups, State Departments of Agriculture, private companies,
agricultural cooperatives, and export trade associations.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 1,000.
Estimated Number of Responses per Respondent: 1 per annum.
Estimated Total Annual Burden of Respondents: 250 hours.
Virtual Trade Event Application
Type of Respondents: private companies, agricultural cooperatives,
and export trade associations.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 100 per annum.
Estimated Number of Responses per Respondent: 1 per annum.
Estimated Total Annual Burden of Respondents: 25 hours per annum.
Virtual Trade Events (Post-Event) Survey
Type of Respondents: private companies agricultural cooperatives,
and export trade associations.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 60 per annum.
Estimated Number of Responses per Respondent: 2 per annum.
Estimated Total Annual Burden of Respondents: 30 hours per annum.
Copies of this information collection may be obtained from Kenneth
Vernon, the Agency Information Collection Coordinator, at
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#662d03080803120e48300314080908261315020748010910"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="ce85aba0a0abbaa6e098abbca0a1a08ebbbdaaafe0a9a1b8">[email protected]</span></a>.
Requests for Comments: Send comments regarding (a) whether the
information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of
the agency, including whether the information will have practical
utility; (b) the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden of the
collection of information including validity of the methodology and
assumption used; (c)
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ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to
be collected; and (d) ways to minimize the burden of the collection of
information on those who are to respond, including through the use of
automated, electronic, mechanical, or other technological collection
techniques, or other forms of information technology.
All comments received in response to this notice, including names
and addresses when provided, will be a matter of public record.
Comments will be available without change, including any personal
information provided, for inspection online at <a href="http://www.regulations.gov">http://www.regulations.gov</a> and at the mail address listed above between 8:00
a.m. and 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, except holidays.
Comments will be summarized and included in the submission for OMB
approval.
Persons with disabilities who require an alternative means for
communication of information (Braille, large print, audiotape, etc.)
should contact <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#1341524176626676606753666077723d747c65"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="e8baa9ba8d999d8d9b9ca89d9b8c89c68f879e">[email protected]</span></a>.
Daniel Whitley,
Administrator, Foreign Agricultural Service.
[FR Doc. 2024-13502 Filed 6-18-24; 8:45 am]
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